Posts made by Darrell Lanson

OK that is stupid simple I was over complicating it again.

Is there a way we can update all the hosts to use our latest active directory username and password instead of doing each one individually? I have updated FOG settings but that doesn’t update the hosts that were registered prior to that.

I was wondering if anyone has a solution on how I can image this machine with FOG I have a USB nic(StarTech USB21000S2) but it doesn’t want to boot off the NIC. Startech says it is PXE bootable but starting to have my doubts more with motherboard than USB NIC. In the Bios the first boot device is Network than USB than Hard Drive. None of these seem to work it just boots into the hard drive. And of course this thing is so thin there is no NIC on the laptop. Any help would be appreciated.

Is fog service running on the computer you imaged if it isn’t snapins will not be deployed to the computer just the image.

With the way I have mine setup it installs in the background and doesn’t disturb the user while the snapin deploys the only thing the user might notice is the adobe reader shortcut showing up on there desktop. So once you have edited the msi file save it to a new name run sfx maker on it with the /qn silent swutches than create executable and upload that to the snaping folder. add snaping to whatever computer you want than deploy either all snapins or a single snapin under the advanced tasks.

Ok I’m an idiot add the additional MAC address’s with the add mac address’s under general info. So ignore my problem its now fixed.

Saskatchewan, Canada

[SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000] Snapin for Java, Adober Reader and Flash[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I found this way simpler for myself so I thought I would share it the first part I got from this web site [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri][url]http://d4rkcell.com/archives/929[/url] I tested it with Java 7 update 9 and it works flawlessly, also Adobe Reader XI and Flash 11.5.502.110[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 1.Launch jre-****-i586.exe by double clicking it. When you see the “Welcome to Java” screen DO NOT click install. Leave the window open and open a windows explorer window.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 2.Browse to C:\Users<USERNAME> where <USERNAME> is the username of the user you are logged in as. in my examples I will use C:\Users\usrsetup. The path you need to get to in this case will be C:\Users\usrsetup\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 3.You should see a folder called “jre****″ basically copy this folder to your desktop. Leave the window open.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 4.Go back to the Java setup and close it.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 5.Launch jre--x64.exe and check back in C:\Users\usrsetup\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 6.You should see a folder called jre_x64, copy this to your desktop alongside the other folder.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]For the next part of the process we need to download something called InstEd. This is a free MSI editing program that we will use to disable the updates in the MSI files we just got and placed on the desktop. Once you have InstEd downloaded/installed browse to C:\Users\usrsetup\Desktop\jre**** (remember the username will be different for you). Follow the below instructions.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 7.Right click jre****.msi and select “InstEd It!”. This should launch the InstEd software with the java msi loaded.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 8.In InstEd down the left there is a pane called “Tables” scroll down this list until you see “Property” Click to highlight property. This should show some content in the main pane.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 9.In the main pane search for AUTOUPDATECHECK and change this from a 1 to a 0. This should stop java from auto-updating when it is installed. There also appears to be a property called JAVAUPDATE, change this from a 1 to a 0 as well just to cover all bases. Finally there is a property called JU, this needs to be changed from a 1 to a 0 as well.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 10.Once all properties have been changed you just simply click File > Save As and choose something like jre****_noupdate.msi. I usually save it in the folder jre****. This will leave you with two MSI files. Jre****.msi and jre****_noupdate.msi.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] 11.Repeat this process in C:\Users\usrsetup\Desktop\jre****_x64. The filename here for the MSI file is the same as the filename for x86 so I always rename jre****.msi to jre****_x64.msi and edit this saving it as jre****_x64_noupdate.msi[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]12. Now start up SFXMaker 1.2 Final Click on the Directory Tab[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]13. Directory Path is C:\Users\usrsetup\Desktop\jre**** or jre****_64[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]14. File to Run is jre****_noupdate.msi or jre****_x64_noupdate.msi[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]15. Silent Switches is /qn[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]16. Select a SFX path and filename I usually use Java32 and Java64[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]17. check off with Progress Bar and use EXEs Icon than Click on Create.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]18. With Flash (MSI files can be found here [url]http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html[/url] )the only changes to make in the MSI file if you want to stop Automatic Upadtes and agree to license are:[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Symbol][SIZE=3]·[/SIZE] [/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]ISCHECKFORUPDATES change 1 to 0[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Symbol][SIZE=3]·[/SIZE] [/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]AGREETOLICENSE change No to YES[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]19. For Adobe Reader(MSI Files can be got here [url]ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/[/url] ) edit the MSI File if you want to Agree to License EULA Accept makes it so staff dont even notice a new install and we Disable browser intergration as it locks up on one of our programs and make the following changes:[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Symbol][SIZE=3]·[/SIZE] [/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]AGREETOLICENSE change [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]No to YES[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Symbol][SIZE=3]·[/SIZE] [/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]EULA_ACCEPT change No to YES[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Symbol][SIZE=3]·[/SIZE] [/FONT][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]DISABLE_BROWSER_INTERGRATION change No to YES[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]20. Use SFX maker with the switch /qn and make it an executable.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

I am having a similar issue out laptops have wired, Wireless and docking station MAC addresses this makes it tough to push a snap in when they are not on the registered MAC address is there a solution to this that I am missing.

I know that because of FOG I am able to finally take a summer vacation for the first time in 8 years I can image all our computers in about a 2 week period or less if I want compared to taking almost the whole 2 months before.

When using the PnpUtil I found that if you use just -a switch it wouldnt work I had to use -a and -i Add and Install you just point it to the inf driver file and it will add it to C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore that way one image should work on any computer We have laptops and desktops and there all working off of one image about 6 different models and haven’t had a problem yet.

Don’t know if this will help you I use one image at my college for all the different computers we have(running Windoiws 7). Before I sysprep the machine I run a utility call PnPUtil.exe this lets me add all the drivers for the different computers in the OS so USB3, NIC, Video, Accelometer, etc are loaded so when the computer restarts it has all the drivers it needs for that particular computer. My unattend file is basically to register windows and MS Office programs. FOG does the rest.